Category: Broadband

Locating new street cabinets has been a common problem in the Openreach FTTC/P roll-outs, and in one rural village in Cornwall, a Methodist Church stepped to allow it to be located in their church yard.

With wholesale superfast services available via Openreach passing some 100,000 premises, a take-up of 10% is well above the national average. Arcol UK with a full fibre service was the 10,000th customer on the network.

The date of May 2015 for BDUK project is not ceremonial, it is the likely date of the next General Election and hitting the superfast broadband and USC targets for then would be a very positive bullet point for the political parties involved.

North Lincolnshire Homes at its third annual fun day held in Scunthorpe has launched its social broadband service.

Hampshire County Council has launched a small Alternative Broadband Pilot with the aim to evaluate various alternative broadband technologies.

While other major providers are growing or holding station, O2 and Be are continuing to shrink losing 15,800 customers in the last quarter.

Everything Everywhere has published its half year results for 2012, revealing a small increase in customer numbers.

While the old BT street cabinets have vanished from view due to them been in place for decades, in some areas objections are being raised about the larger cabinets.

Another bit of the puzzle for the UK being the best country in Europe for broadband has fallen into place, unless the EU stops major projects in their tracks.

The latest round of broadband statistics for 2011 have been published, and with no regular publication of the UK's own broadband scorecard, represent another way to measure our progress towards best in Europe.